Re: Guide for Oracle 10g installation on Solaris 10 GA?

From: HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:15:58 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2005.04.05.14.17.48.953433@telus.net>

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:59:16 +1000, Andrew Tyson interested us by writing:

>> is legally limited to development: you agree to purchase licenses to go
>> into produciton.  (Morals, anyone?)

>
> Huh? It's installed on my machine at home for educational purposes. I
> guess the general Oracle community may not be aware that there are
> hobbyists who run Sun gear in the comfort of their own home.

Huh? Did you happen to read the license to which you agreed before you downloaded? The agreement is not that long & written in language simple enough for most developers and DBAs - even I can understand it. Oracle seems to ignore those people using the downloaded version for education, but [afaik] that is not what you agreed to.

And yes, Oracle is quite aware that people have different OSs in their homes. For example they know that, largely to keep my skills current, I have an UltraSPARC box running Solaris right beside several Windows and Linux boxes.

And my boxes that have Oracle on them have paid licences with paid support. It's really not all that expensive in the grand scheme of things.

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